This 📊 application shows the evolution of 💰 prices 💰 of all items of the 🍁 Canadian basket of goods and services 🍁 at the national, provincial and territorial level.
It allows users to download a complete dataset of the Canadian Consumer Price Index data since 1914 until 2018 and also to download a specific plot that the user wishes to analyze.
For more details on the app, please contact the authors:
| Names | Emails |
|---|---|
| Atai Akunov | atai.akunov@gmail.com |
| Manolo Malaver-Vojvodic | mmala027@uottawa.ca |
| Liam Peet-Pare | l.peetpare@gmail.com |
Special thanks to 👏 Dragos Ifrim 👏 for his ongoing leadership and support during this project and to the R open source community 👍.
It is also worth to acknowledge that the calculator idea was taken from Bank of Canada's inflation calculator and that all the data is publicly avaibalable from the Statistics Canada website.
Our app can be ran from RStudio using the following code:
## Installing missing packages
pkgs <- c("shiny", "shinydashboard", "dplyr", "DT", "ggplot2", "plotly", "treemap", "openxlsx")
pkgs_needed <- pkgs[!(pkgs %in% installed.packages()[,"Package"])]
if(length(pkgs_needed)) install.packages(pkgs_needed)
## Run app from Github repo
shiny::runGitHub('manolo20/cpi_dashboard_StatCan')